{"id":3383,"date":"2019-01-03T10:43:14","date_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/?p=3383"},"modified":"2019-01-03T10:43:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T17:43:14","slug":"under-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/2019\/01\/03\/under-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Under Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Armed agents conceal themselves in doorways and behind lampposts and newspapers. You just passed by one and didn\u2019t even know you had. Time to electrocute your thinking. They\u2019re paid to spy, and they spy on people like me \u2013 an old man walking a dog on a rope \u2013 who\u2019ve done nothing wrong. I can\u2019t sleep through the night for worry that they\u2019re building a dossier against me by twisting something I said. Is it becoming a grass armchair? A black wall? A crying mirror? If it is, I\u2019m finished. One day I\u2019ll squeeze into a crowded elevator that\u2019ll disappear between floors.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>From Guest Contributor Howie Good<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Howie&#8217;s latest collections are I&#8217;m Not a Robot from Tolsun Books and A Room at the Heartbreak Hotel from Analog Submissions Press.\u00a0<br><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed agents conceal themselves in doorways and behind lampposts and newspapers. You just passed by one and didn\u2019t even know you had. Time to electrocute your thinking. They\u2019re paid to spy, and they spy on people like me \u2013 an old man walking a dog on a rope \u2013 who\u2019ve done nothing wrong. I can\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4284,2258,213,7549,7552,2842,6056,41,7349,7550,1347,7551,2665,1699,2189,4273,1109,138,2116,7247],"class_list":["post-3383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-100words","tag-agents","tag-armchair","tag-dog","tag-doorways","tag-dossier","tag-elevator","tag-floors","tag-guest-contributor","tag-howie-good","tag-lampposts","tag-mirror","tag-newspapers","tag-night","tag-old-man","tag-rope","tag-thinking","tag-time","tag-wall","tag-watch","tag-worry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3383\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entropy2.com\/blogs\/100words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}